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This Atlas describes 85 sites throughout North America that constitute important sea duck habitats. It is intended to heighten awareness of valuable sea duck habitats, aid in prioritizing habitat conservation and protection efforts, and help in evaluating environmental assessments. Criteria for inclusion in this atlas were strict, relative to criteria used for other bird habitat designations, to highlight those habitats most critical to sea ducks during at least one season. To be included in this atlas, sites had to meet the following minimum criteria: (1a) The area supports at least 5% of the continental population of a sea duck species, or (1b) The area supports, or has recently supported, a total of 20,000 sea...
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This project developed an artificial intelligence system based on a convoluted neural network capable of detecting and counting sea duck individuals in aerial photos and classifying individuals to species and sex when possible, to reduce time and cost commitments associated with processing imagery from aerial surveys. We used a dataset consisting of 810 aerial images containing sea ducks and other birds in offshore and coastal environments. Images were collected from fixed wing aircraft at varying flight heights and image resolution. A biologist reviewed each image identifying and annotating the position of objects of interest (birds) in the image by drawing a bounding box surrounding each object, and assigned species...


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